>> final experiments; >> after realizing that unloading the usb-ohci module (non even the >> usbcore) system was fine, i compiled the kernel without modules >> support and without usb. the machine crashed and actually i was >> really angry, becuase i thought i had found the problem; but >> finally i discovered that if usb is not loaded the machine >> crashes, but if i load it and unload it (going back to the same >> situation) it doesn't crash. obviously if i disale usb from bios >> everything in ok. maybe is something about irq, so if it is >> enabled in bios the ira (11 for me) is used. loading and >> unloading the module will do something strange to the irq >> handles. cat /proc/interrupts gives 0 on usb. at this point i'm >> curios to find out why this happens; since i've red of >> many people having this problem maybe someone (not you, as you >> told me) had a similar situation. >> don't know if it's relevant, but only once the keyboard was >> blocked, i had to unplag and plug it back (ps/2 keyb) and it was >> ok, checking the interrupts they had jumped from 1500 to about >> 3000 in few seconds. going to work, nice day > >I forget how recent your hardware is, but have you tried booting with: > >lilo: linux noapic
That's one of the f�rst things I tried. Didn't help, but nodma (or something similar disabling IDE DMA) did. _____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB, POP3, Spam Filtering with LYCOS MAIL PLUS for $19.95/year. http://login.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus&ref=lmtplus -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
